Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
JOHN DRYDENPains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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The winds are out of breath.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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